Awards

2015

David Simchi-Levi, three of his PhD students and 5 colleagues from Ford, received the Ford 2015 Engineering Excellence Award for “Identifying Risks and Mitigating Disruptions in the Ford Supply Chain.” Research was done with former PhD students William Schmidt (now on the faculty at Cornell), Yehua Wei (now on the faculty at Duke) and current PhD student Peter Yun Zhang.

According to the citation, “The papers present a fundamental contribution... they will stand as seminal papers of the field.”

2008

An add-on to ILOG LogicNet Plus XE, a key offering in ILOGs LogicTools Suite of Supply Chain Applications, was awarded a Stevie 2008 International Business Award in the category of Best New Product. The winners of the 2008 Stevies (www.stevieawards.com) were selected from more than 1,700 entries submitted by organizations and individuals in more than 30 countries.

The paper “Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination,” co-authored with Stephen E. Chick and Hamed Mamani was awarded the Pierskalla Best Paper Award, 2006. The Pierskalla Award recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science.

INFORMS Fellow Award, 2006 in recognition of outstanding contributions, achievements and service that have advanced the profession of operations research and the management sciences.

2000-2001

The book “Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies” co-authored with P. Kaminsky and E. Simchi-Levi was:

Awarded the Outstanding IIE Publication Prize and the IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Prize given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers;

Awarded the Outstanding First Edition of the Year Prize given in 2000 by McGraw-Hill/Irwin; and

Selected by Business 2.0, December 2001 issue, as the best source for slashing time and costs and increasing productivity in the supply chain.

Appointed the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering/Management Science, Northwestern University, effective September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2010 (declined due to a move to MIT).

1994

A Computerized System for School Bus Routing in New York City developed together with the NYC Board of Education/Office of pupil transportation, the Fund for the City of NY and Julien Bramel won the first place prize in the government/public sector category of the Windows World Open Competition, Atlanta May 1994. The competition was sponsored by, among others, Microsoft, Borland, AT&T, the Computer World magazine and the Windows World Conference.

The paper “Probabilistic Analysis of a Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows” co-authored with J. Bramel and C. L. Li was awarded the 1994 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize given by the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences.

1993

Awarded the Alon Fellowship given by the Council of Higher Education, Israel, to outstanding young scientists, 1993-1996 (declined).

1990

School of Industrial Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, Among the eight top finalists for the Outstanding Instructor Award, 1990-1991.

1985

The paper “Minisum and Minmax Location of a Traveling Salesman” was awarded the Oded Levin prize for the best Operations Research paper in Israel in 1985.